We in the midst of stripping down our WordPress theme to about as bare-bones as we can get it. We're not worried about the design we're trying to get to, we're concerned about stripping away the old and giving us the cleanest most data-only theme we can get to start with.

I think the reason behind using a loop for single items is that you have control over showing or not showing stuff if for some reason you get to a post that doesn’t exist (or was deleted). I’m not sure how this would be possible in WordPress, though.

As far as I know, doesn’t the WP engine end up serving index.php if it can’t find a specific page/post?

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